It was well attended by key industry stakeholders including the DMR, AMCU, NUM, UASA and Solidarity on 25 May.

Despite significant improvements in safety across the South African mining industry, the positive safety trend was reversed in 2017, when for the first time in 10 years, the industry showed an increase in work related fatal accidents.

Sibanye-Stillwater safety incidents 2018:

In May Sibanye-Stillwater confirmed that seven trapped workers at its Driefontein Masakhane shaft did not survive a seismic event that resulted in a fall of ground, but were recovered and brought to surface. Another six employees were successfully rescued.

On 12 February Sibanye-Stillwater reported an employee was fatally injured while clearing a blocked ore pass at its Driefontein operations.

That followed two previous incidents that have happened in a short space of time.